• December 12, 2003 | Alm

    Pennie & Edmonds Closing by Year's End

    Intellectual property boutique Pennie & Edmonds will ring in the new year by closing and firing some of its lawyers and staff. Ahead of a likely announcement of a deal for many - b

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  • August 23, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Show me the money: GC pay soars with stock

    A QUICK LOOK at the salaries of general counsel across the Southeast might give the impression that nobody's getting any raises. Don't be fooled. Though base pay and bonuses are

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  • August 18, 2009 | National Law Journal

    'Zero risk' GCs stem recession litigation tide

    What happened to the wave of litigation that was supposed to swamp corporate America in 2009 A year ago, as the economy began its freefall, corporate law departments were preparing for

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  • June 7, 2001 |

    Unsecureds to Fight Health Care Merger

    Bankrupt companies Genesis Health Ventures Inc. and The Multicare Companies Inc. want to take the novel step of emerging from Chapter 11 as one in an estimated $1.5 billion merger, but unsecur

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  • December 22, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    SEC's Reliance on Private Counsel Growing

    For at least 30 years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has relied on private lawyers for some corporate misconduct investigations and for protection of the assets of firms already

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  • April 18, 2001 | National Law Journal

    PeopleFirst's Counsel is Repo Man and Then Some

    Alan J. Amico, unlike many of the general counsels hired at Internet companies the last few years, still has a job at a thriving concern. As GC at PeopleFirst.com, the largest Internet provide

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  • April 17, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firms See Opportunities in Iraq

    The Central Intelligence Agency recently estimated the gross national product of Iraq at somewhere in the neighborhood of $59 billion. It is a fair bet that the ultimate cost of the country's

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  • May 5, 2004 |

    Feds Slap Gates With $800,000 Fine

    Don't accuse U.S. antitrust enforcers of never giving Bill Gates a break. Gates agreed Monday to pay $800,000 to settle charges that he violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act in 2002 by ac

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  • August 1, 2010 | Legaltech News

    Monitoring Money

    Predictability, transparency, and control. In the wake of the recent economic turmoil, clients have strongly pushed this concept. While the legal industry has gone through a number of shake-u

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  • July 8, 2004 | The Recorder

    COX-2 Patent Ruling Leaves Bitter Taste

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has refused to review en banc a ruling against the University of Rochester in its patent battle over rights to a multibillion-dollar painkille

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